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adding, if you're patient, at the beginning of the game, or at least by the time you've opened up trevor and can drive him to the city:

there's a briefcase off the coast of a major beach with $10,000 in it and it respawns. if you swim above it, dive. grab it. resurface. quick save. Load. Repeat. you can get starting out money for each of them.

Then all you have to do is wait until the assassination missions to do investing - all but the first you hold off until after the end-game heist.

you can get them investing equal amounts with a bit of grinding and then they will all have about the same amount of money, but you have to plan for it and work for it, and it's a bit of a cheese move.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

there's a briefcase off the coast of a major beach with $10,000 in it and it respawns

I've heard about that one, and my understanding is that Rockstar became aware of this and they've released a patch, so it no longer respawns.

codewitch honey crisis wrote:

Then all you have to do is wait until the assassination missions to do investing

Yeah, that's what all those "get rich quick in GTA5" posts/videos discuss--wait until after the storyline missions to be completed before doing the assassination missions. However, at this point, I'm not going to restart the game once more...

I understand not wanting to start the game again. But, assuming you're not doing so right now, eventually you may dust it off a year or more down the line and achieve the "100%" rating, at that point you can try to maximise your heist earnings.

I think you can get it as high as 3 or 4 bili, but like i said, you have to keep all but 2 on the market - which you then treat as a volatile "bank" of sorts, although I've noticed a lot of the non-story significant stocks don't change in price that much.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

Yeah - if there's still a limit, then I'm happy enough knowing I've reached the "first limit" and not spend any more time trying to reach the second.

It's also unlikely I'm ever going to restart the game...I've been stuck at 99.56% for a very, very long time now, and all that's missing is winning a golf game at or under par (not likely to happen, the way things have progressed), and tennis, which I'm apparently useless at--and I find it so boring I can't bring myself to spend time retrying.

Not sure if you know anything about this...but am I correct in my understanding that there's still a few things you can do/unlock if the account used with the PC game is also associated with the Xbox 360/PS3 version (not XB1/PS4)...? If so, I may still get that (given how cheap it is nowadays)...not that I intend to play it on a console...

Is it enough to let the game know you own the other version, or do you have to actually play it on the other platforms...I hate console controllers with a passion - I've played GTA4 a tiny bit, for example - but there's no way I'd ever try to complete it

While a small number of people in the world are well past the Int32 limit (two billion) on their bank account and are heading to the Int64 limit (9 quintillion, that's a 9 with 18 zeros) most of us (still relatively rich developers) struggle to get even past the Int16 limit (32 thousand).
Of course most people don't even need a byte (255) to store their financials.
Think about that, I'm saying we're relatively rich with just 32,000 when there are people who have 5 million times as much!
Capitalism has failed, but I don't know of a better alternative...

I'm just saying the extravagantly rich are getting even richer while the poor are getting poorer (or at least not richer).
I guess that's part of capitalism so it hasn't particularly failed.
So maybe what I mean is that it's not a suitable economic and political system to live by (but still better than the tried alternatives, like communism).
If a system allows for seven people to be as wealthy as about 4 billion other people combined it's not a very good or fair system (and I know, those people aren't necessarily poor because of capitalism, but corruption as well).
Anyway, I was just giving my 2 cents (a day's work in some countries) without necessarily engaging debate

...but barely getting started. This 2017 article claims "...the total wealth in the world" to be $280 trillion.

Sander Rossel wrote:

Capitalism has failed, but I don't know of a better alternative...

Loopholes in the various taxation systems have allowed it to fail. It can be corrected. You just need to have politicians willing to pass new laws (and commit political suicide in the process, which is why it won't happen)

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So include the notices, add him to the "About" box, and thank him - and include a github link to your project if that's open as well.

yeah i know legally I'm in the clear. I was more just thinking it might be an a-hole move on my part - like i was taking advantage in order to undercut the other guy, even if that wasn't my intent.

i think after the responses here in their totality, I'm no longer worried about that. It was never about whether i had the right to do it though, or at least, that's not why i asked the question, if that makes sense.

best regards.

edit: woo, a local. I'm a seattle transplant. I moved about an hour north from there several years ago, but lived there for most of my adult life.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.